Joel Eel is a Korean-Canadian dance music producer/performer, mix engineer, dj, designer & label manager. His latest ablum “Love Infinity,” is available on all streaming platforms via Perpetual Care.

Carving a stylized palette within the underground dance music scene, Eel has been featured on: Vogue, Vice, Visla Magazine (kr), DJ Mag, Dummy Mag, Resident Advisor, Paper Magazine, Netflix, and Exclaim Magazine.
He has performed for: Red Bull Music Festival, SXSW, MutekTO, Long Winter INUIM Powerplant series, including speaking as a panel member for Long Winter Paris, and contributed mixes for RefractionNTS radio, Red Bull Radio, Balamii Radio, Borsch Magazine, Rinse France, Invisible City, and Seoul Community Radio.


In recent collaboration w/ Leevisa, Joel composed the South Korean Horror/Thriller feature film: 미혹 (“Mi-hok”), starring: Hyo Ju Park, Minjae Kim, & Sunwoo Cha (of B1A4/kpop).
PRESS

Perpetual Care

Creatives First Refraction Interview

Love Infinity (LP)

Visla Magazine (KR) Review
Exclaim Magazine (CA) Album Review - 9/10
If-Only (UK) - Hybrid Human Pt. II Premiere 
Origns Sound (UK) - Hybrid Human Pt. I Premiere
Swine Daily (SVK) - Fragrance Unity Premiere
XLR8R - Web3 Weekly Wrap Up


General Motors - Single

Bandcamp - Artists and Labels Offering DonationsResident Advisor - Bandcmap Friday July 3  

Performing A Crime (LP)

DJ Mag - Six Acts You Need To Hear
DJ Mag - Album Review - 8.0
Dummymag - Body Builder Music Video Premiere
Inverted Audio - Signs Of A Broken Heart Premiere
Resident Advisor - New Tracks - Performing A Crime
Resident Advisor - News
Paper Magazine - Performing A Crime Music Video
Mixmag Premiere: Performing a Crime (Aquarian Remix)
Untitled909 - Interview
Exclaim - Album Review - 8.0
Now Magazine - Best Music

Forth - VA - Vol. 1

Resident Advisor - “Toronto collective Forth launches label”
Resident Advisor - April’s Best Music
Resident Advisor (UK) - This Invisible Phantom Premiere
Exclaim - Forth Vol. 1 review - 8/10
Now Magazine - Lead Music Feature - “Forth wants to put toronto on the dance music map”
XLR8R Free Download - Hadi Master
Untitled909 - Toronto collective Forth launch

Very Good Person (LP)

Post-Punk “No Hard Feelings” Track Premiere
Vice US Featured Interview: Joel Eel's Eclectic Techno Debut Explores Growing Up Korean-Canadian
Vice Video Premiere “아주 좋은 사람 (Very Good Person)”
Vice Mexico “OMG” Track Premiere
I Die: You Die Video Premiere: “Fever”
Now Magazine - “The 101 best Toronto songs of 2017”
Now Magazine - “Best toronto songs of 2017”

Other

Fact Magazine - Never a Land Without People
Resident Advisor - Never A Land Without People
Nano Mutek Artist
Hartzine magazine on “So it seems” Release
“So It Seems” Feature on Post Punk
Paris La Nuit – Baltra Interview - Producer to keep an eye out for
Thump / Vice - Top pick for NYE – It’s not you it’s me Farewell 2016
Inverted Audio – Up-coming artists in Toronto in Nautiluss Interview
Umbrella Factory Sessions – Mention on Radio Programming
Toronto Star - Channel No. 2 Featured Article (CAD)